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South Devon Railway

Name: South Devon Railway
Brand: Amberley Publishing
SKU: 9781445685717
Price: 374 CZK
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Autor: Bernard Warr

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Amberley Publishing

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On 21 May 1969 Dr Richard Beeching officially re-opened the railway between Buckfastleigh and Totnes...

Informace o knize

Autor

Bernard Warr

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2019

Stránek

EAN

9781445685717

ISBN

144568571X

Enbook ID

21085211

Vydavatel

Amberley Publishing

Hmotnost

300

Rozměry

172 x 233 x 8

Kompletní popis

On 21 May 1969 Dr Richard Beeching officially re-opened the railway between Buckfastleigh and Totnes in South Devon as the Dart Valley Railway. This former GWR branch line had been closed by British Railways in 1962, although the passenger service had disappeared in 1958. The railway was only the fifth heritage railway in the country to be reopened and, though volunteers were involved, the owning company had shareholders and was run as a commercial undertaking.The author was one of those early volunteers who worked to make the railway physically fit to carry passengers again. Since then in the intervening fifty-odd years the line